← back
Next projectDream Team→
02SIIM Hackathon · 2nd Place
Agent00HL7
LLM agents × radiology reports × patient literacy
Mission accepted: creating trustworthy, patient-friendly letters from radiology reports with an agentic LLM workflow.
With Alina Yang and Estella Yee · SIIM 2024

The problem
The 21st Century Cures Act gave patients much greater access to their health records — but radiology reports are full of difficult language and medical jargon, which can lead to misinterpretation and anxiety.
What we built
- AI-generated letters that explain a radiology report in plain language while preserving its medical context and accuracy
- An accuracy check that matches ICD-10 codes between the original report and the letter
- A readability check using the Flesch-Kincaid metric
- A workflow that reduces how much proofreading medical professionals need to do
Agentic workflow
- Instead of one zero-shot prompt, the letter goes through an iterative self-refinement loop based on the Reflexion framework for AI agents
- Each draft is checked for accuracy (do the letter's ICD-10 codes match the report's?) and readability (Flesch-Kincaid)
- The loop is programmatic, so it improves accuracy while minimizing the need for human input
Technologies
LLM agentsReflexionICD-10 codesFlesch-Kincaid
Screenshots
screenshot
screenshot
Outcomes
- Tested on 20 randomized radiology reports
- 94.94% ICD-10 verification accuracy with the multi-agent approach, vs. 68.23% with zero-shot prompting
- 81.25% of final letters needed no corrections for accuracy or readability, vs. 25% of zero-shot letters
- 2nd place at the SIIM Hackathon